Bryan L. Jones

Department of Romance Languages
The University of Pennsylvania
255 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104–6305
Tel. 330/201.3466
bryjones@sas.upenn.edu
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~bryjones/

Education

2011, Certificate of Excellence in Teaching, University of Pennsylvania
2011, Commendation for Excellent Teaching in Spanish, University of Pennsylvania
2009–14, Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2009, Scott Prize for Excellence in Modern Languages, Wesleyan University

Work in progress: “A Look Into the ‘Best Kept Secret of Colombian Art:’ Luis Ospina’s Un tigre de papel (2007).”
Work in progress: "Pornomiseria: Revolutionizing Cinema or Marketing Poverty?"
Work in progress: "El Caribe no caribeño: La salsa y el meta-archipiélago de ¡Que viva la música! de Andrés Caicedo."
Work in progress: “The Disquiet After Die Stille vor Bach (Pere Portabella, 2007).”

Review. La Estela de Caicedo: miradas críticas. Ed. Juan Duchesne Winter & Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez. The Hispanic Review 79.3 (Summer 2011): 504–08.

“Clinging to Life: Vampires and Bloodlines in Carne de tu carne and Pura sangre.” Graduate Romanic Association Annual Conference (Topic: “Written in Blood”). University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. 19 March 2011.
“Animated Experiments: Rhythm, Light and Color.” Film series Del Éxtasis al Arrebato (From Ecstasy to Rapture). International House, Philadelphia, PA. 03 December 2010.
Subtitles for various short films for the series Crònica d’una Mirada: Clandestine Filmmaking in Franco’s Spain, 1960–1975. International House, Philadelphia, PA. 28–30 January 2010.

2011 (Spring), The Great Illusion: Over a Century of Spanish Cinema (CINE 388), University of Pennsylvania
2010 (Fall), Intermediate Spanish Language (SPAN 130), University of Pennsylvania
2008–09, Upward Bound Summer Program, The Ohio State University, ATI
- Courses designed and taught: Beginning and Intermediate Spanish, Chemistry, and Physics
2007, Spanish Teaching Assistant, Wesleyan University
2006, Calculus Teaching Assistant, Wesleyan University

2011–12, Editorial Assistant and Book Review Editor, The Hispanic Review.
2012, Coordinator and Co-founder of the Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Organization, University of Pennsylvania
2011, President of the Graduate Romanic Association, University of Pennsylvania
2010–11, Vice-President (Spanish) of the Graduate Romanic Association, University of Pennsylvania
2009–10, Department Representative (Romance Languages) to the School of Arts and Sciences Government, University of Pennsylvania